DC Universe New Weekly Releases 13 April, 2021

Out of the 8 new releases on DC Universe Infinite this week, I picked out 4 for my top selections. DC seems to be putting out some quality issues these days and it makes me glad to be subscribed to their service

Anyway, here’s the new stuff I found this week:

DC Universe New Releases April 6, 2021:

• American Vampire: 1976 #1
• Batman #100
• DCeased: Dead Planet #4
• Justice League #54
• The Dreaming: Waking Hours #3
• Young Justice #19
• Far Sector #8
• Legend of the Swamp Thing: Halloween Spectacular #1

TOP RELEASES OF THE WEEK

8 new comics released today (last week had 10).  Anyway, looking at Comic Book Roundup which aggregates a bunch of review sites, here are the top issues from this batch of comics. This week I found 4 issues that I wanted to look further into.

• American Vampire: 1976 #1
  by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque.
  Published by Vertigo Comics, 2020.
  America is broken. Trust between the government and the American public has crumbled. Paranoia reigns supreme.
  It’s 1976, and this is the concluding chapter of the Eisner Award-winning American Vampire!
  Skinner Sweet has exhausted all efforts to regain his lost immortality. With his powers and purpose gone, he is now determined to go out with a bang. At a seedy motorcycle rally in the desert where he’s closer than ever to his death wish, Pearl Jones and a shocking partner tracks him down for one last, desperate mission: The force known as the Gray Trader and its minions are tunneling through the bowels of the world to unleash hell on Earth-just in time for America’s bicentennial. With catastrophe looming, it’s up to Skinner and Pearl to reconcile and change the course of history-or die trying.
  The series that launched the careers of superstars Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque returns for nine final issues and the closing chapter of the legacy of American Vampire.
• DCeased: Dead Planet #4
  by Tom Taylor and Trevor Hairsine.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  Time is running out for the Justice League to unlock the Anti-Life cure as they face a deadly new threat on Earth-in addition to the billions of the undead! Their final desperate attempt at finding the cure will take them off-planet for the greatest heist in the history of New Genesis!
• The Dreaming: Waking Hours #3
  by G. Willow Wilson and Nick Robles.
  Published by Vertigo Comics.
  In the waking world, Ruin and the fallen cherub Jophiel have teamed up with the sorceress Heather After to try to pull Lindy out of the Dreaming, and home to her newborn daughter…but they’d better work fast. Lindy’s mind is rapidly disintegrating as she reckons with thousands of possibilities for who Shakespeare really was, each one alive and walking around in front of her-and if she can’t keep it together, then she’ll be lost forever!
• Far Sector #8
  by N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell.
  Published by DC Comics, 2020.
  While still processing her feelings about Councilor Marth, Jo tracks down the “riders” who killed Averrup Thorn, and gets the first hint of what’s really going on beneath the surface of the City Enduring. Reporting to the Council, Jo is disgusted to realize she’s facing the same kind of callous, responsibility-avoiding bureaucracy as back home on Earth.

COMICS CORNER | DC UNIVERSE NEW WEEKLY RELEASES April 13, 2021